The
sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war
baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from
the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary
ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American
life.

No
longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young
people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles,
laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began
in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.